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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. Ill, 



and the Little Park, 671 acres. The 

 king erected the Palace of Nonsuch in 

 the latter. In Queen Mary's time it was 

 granted to the Earl of Arundel, and from 

 him passed to the Lumleys, who sold it to 

 the Crown. It was the residence of Lord 

 Lumley in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 

 in whose time (1586) Camden wrote the 

 following agreeable account of it : ' The 

 house is so surrounded by parks, so full of 

 deer, delicious gardens, artificial arbours, 

 pastures, and shady walks, that it seems 

 to be the spot where pleasure chose to 

 dwell with health.' Hentzner, in his 

 travels, visited it in 1598, and describes it 

 in the same words. Nonsuch Palace was 

 destroyed during the Rebellion; it was 

 surveyed by order of the Parliament in 

 1650, when it appeared that there were in 

 the Little Park 108 fallow-deer, valued at 

 240/.' Evelyn mentions it in his Memoirs 

 and Diary in the year 1666, and notes the 

 avenue planted with fair elms ; but he 

 adds, ' The rest of these goodly trees, 

 both of this and of Worcester Park ad- 

 joining, were felled by those destructive 

 and avaritious rebels in the late war.' 

 Nonsuch was granted in 1671, by Charles 

 II. to Viscount Grandison and others. It 

 was disparked before 1709 by the Duchess 

 of Cleveland, for whom it had been held 

 in trust.' 



Richmond, or Skene, and Mortlake 

 Parks. — There were two parks at Shene 

 and Mortlake in the reign of Henry VIII. 

 That at Shene (the name of which was 

 changed to Richmond by Henry VII.) 

 had existed for a long time ; and I have 



' Archseologia, vol. v. p. 438. 



'^ Brayley's Surrey, vol. iv. p. 406. 



' See page 21. 



* 8vo. London, 1751. 



already quoted a letter from Queen Mar- 

 garet of Anjou to the keeper there,' writ- 

 ten about the middle of the fifteenth cen- 

 tury. These parks were united by 

 Charles I. in 1637, and considerable ad- 

 ditions made to them, but not without the 

 very serious opposition of many of the 

 proprietors whose lands were affected by 

 the proposed enclosure. Lord Clarendon, 

 in his History of the Rebellion, has given 

 us a particular account of this transaction, 

 which is also quoted at length with some 

 additions in ' The History of the Making 

 of Richmond New Park in Surrey;'* a 

 pamphlet written in 175 1, in consequence 

 of some attempts which were made at the 

 time to prevent the free ingress of the 

 people into this park. The present Great 

 Park at Richmond is between 8 and 9 

 miles in circumference, and is said to in- 

 clude 2,253 acres ; fallow-deer, 1,600 ; red- 

 deer, 40 or 50.^ 



Of Episcopal Parks within the county 

 of Surrey, we have Croydon and Bursiow, 

 belonging to the Archbishop of Canter- 

 bury ; Farnham and Esher, appurtenant 

 to the bishoprick of Winchester. 



Croydon, for ages the country palace of 

 the Archbishop of Canterbury, was sold 

 by Act of Parliament in 1780, when Ad- 

 dington was purchased in- lieu of it. Wal- 

 worth, the famous Lord Mayor oLLondon, 

 was appointed keeper of Croydon Park by 

 Archbishop Courtenay in 1382.' 



BurstowPark, on the borders of Sussex, 

 was an ancient park belonging to the same 

 see ; in the reign of Elizabeth it had been 

 alienated to Sir Thomas Sherley.' 



' Brayley's Surrey, vol. iii. p. 65. 



° lb. vol. iv. 7. 



' lb. vol. iv. p. 293, 



